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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,419
    Food cost is highway robbery!
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    Yup,it's a 1966 Ford Fairlane GT/390

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 54,046
    Shelby series 1 with the Aurora engine?

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    stickguy said:

    Shelby series 1 with the Aurora engine?

    Yep, MY 1999.

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481

  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    edited April 2018
    That is an Audi 50 - mid 70's - and the badge on the grille probably indicates a tuning kit of some sort. The plate is Belgian.

    We didn't get imports of the Audi 50 here, as VW just concentrated on theVW Polo for the UK market.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    magnette said:

    That is an Audi 50 - mid 70's - and the badge on the grille probably indicates a tuning kit of some sort. The plate is Belgian.

    We didn't get imports of the Audi 50 here, as VW just concentrated on theVW Polo for the UK market.

    We didn't get the Audi 50 in the USA either, we got a version of the Audi 80 sedan that was sold here in the 70s as the Audi Fox (2 or 4 drs).



    To further confuse things a Brazilian-built hatchback wagon was later imported as the Volkswagen Fox, a name which was also later used extensively outside the USDM.

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    VW management wasn’t keen on Audi sending a full size sedan over to the USA, but they did— the Audi 100.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    Mr_Shiftright said:

    VW management wasn’t keen on Audi sending a full size sedan over to the USA, but they did— the Audi 100.

    This year it's the 60th anniversary of the intro of the Audi 100LS the USDM


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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,755
    Uh that's a pretty modern looking car for 1958 B)
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    edited April 2018
    fintail said:

    Uh that's a pretty modern looking car for 1958 B)

    Doh!

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682

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  • omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    andys120 said:

    fintail said:

    Uh that's a pretty modern looking car for 1958 B)

    Doh!
    Ha, the smallest typo. :)
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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,588
    edited April 2018
    andys120 said:

    Mr_Shiftright said:

    VW management wasn’t keen on Audi sending a full size sedan over to the USA, but they did— the Audi 100.

    This year it's the 60th anniversary of the intro of the Audi 100LS the USDM


    Nice shot of a young couple looking for the nearest garage/towing service. :D

    I know that is a Euro image but was the 100 ever sold in a 2-door version over here? I only recall the 4-door.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,177
    I'm surprised to see that 100 with a black vinyl roof. Was that big in Germany back then?
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,755
    Yep I am pretty sure the 2 door sedan was sold in the US anyway, for a short time. How many were on the road past 1980, that's another story. There was also an Audi 100 fastback coupe that we did not receive.
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,177
    I'm thinking the 100 a prof had at college was the 2 door.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    edited April 2018
    I actually owned an Audi 100 for a short while. I liked the car and thought very highly of it at the time--but then, mine didn't have the chronic problems over overheating and early transmission failure. I bought mine used, and flipped it after 6 months or so. It was a great winter car, though, and with studded snows worked quite well in the Colorado front range. It had good power, lots of room inside, and handled and braked very well. Compared to domestics of the time, it was certainly different. I would say it compared best to a BMW of the same era--smoother and more comfy than a Benz. More like a Peugeot 504 perhaps.

    Audi took a long time to shake off its reliability problems. Audis were still dropping like flies well into the early 2000s. Shameful, really. Then I guess some unforgiving, cruel, task master of a Kommandant was put in charge of quality control. :p
  • qbrozenqbrozen Member Posts: 33,804
    Mr_Shiftright said:


    Audi took a long time to shake off its reliability problems.

    Wait ... Audi shook off its reliability problems? I must have slept through that. :p

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    edited April 2018
    Well it's all relative, isn't it? Now they are no more glitchy than their competitors. Audis were a disaster in the 1990s and early 2000s. You might as well have just slit your throat rather than buy an early Allroad.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    Given we had British Leyland through the era of the Audi 100 etc they were seen here as paragons of reliability.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Well perhaps paragons of DURABILITY, i.e., build quality, that's for sure.

    BL is a pretty low bar to measure things by though.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    So were Moskvitch
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Sure, BL wasn't as bad as those commie cars?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    I had a couple of first Gen Audi A4/B5s and got good service from them. I'd say they were almost as well built as the pair of Hondas I owned.

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    At least an Audi door went THUNK when you closed it---not THWANG! :p
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,755
    I don't know about Moskvitch, but I think old Ladas are fairly rugged - you'll just be wrenching a bit.

    That blue thing, what a car.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    edited April 2018
    When I was in college in London in the late 70's the chap that used to fix the various wrecks I was driving - who was a repair man working out of the garage at the back of his house - he used to run a Moskvitch 427 estate and a Fiat 500 Estate. Had no trouble with the Moskvitch as he could just fix it when it went wrong -they are tough technically or you would die in Siberia, and it had a full tool kit - but the tailgate was rusting when it was a two year old car and I expect it lasted no longer than about six years.

    They were fairly common in Britain in those days because you got a lot of car for the price of a basic Mini. More common in our equivalent of the Rustbelt - declining manufacturing towns with old heavy industries like mining and steel works. Plenty of them then in South Wales where I am from originally.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,755
    When in Germany several years ago, I saw a 60s era Moskvitch parked on the street:


  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    I've seen a few at car shows but not in everyday use for about the last fifteen years - more likely in Germany as they had thousands after reunification I would imagine.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682

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  • lostwrench1lostwrench1 Member Posts: 1,165
    1950 Buick.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    Yep, a 1950 Buick Super. Kinda fierce looking w those big teeth in that grille. You see that in your rearview you're gonna pull over. :'(

    Love the windshield mount antenna.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 54,046
    2nd generation Toyata MR2. I looked at a used one of these a few years back. fun car. I would be happy to have a nice clean one still.

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  • qbrozenqbrozen Member Posts: 33,804
    stickguy said:
    2nd generation Toyata MR2. I looked at a used one of these a few years back. fun car. I would be happy to have a nice clean one still.
    There was a silly low mile turbo on BaT recently. I didn't watch where it wound up but I think it was over $13k when I saw it.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    stickguy said:

    2nd generation Toyata MR2. I looked at a used one of these a few years back. fun car. I would be happy to have a nice clean one still.

    It's a 1992Toyota MR2

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,177
    '75-'77 Scirocco, the later ones had combo turn signals/side marker lights.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    texases said:

    '75-'77 Scirocco, the later ones had combo turn signals/side marker lights.

    Article I took it from doesn't give exact MY but I'm sure you're correct, it's a Euro-spec Volkswagen Scirocco TS from Italy.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,588



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  • qbrozenqbrozen Member Posts: 33,804
    edited April 2018
    good grief. I hope there is no more than 1 of that in the world.

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    We generally don't allow "one-offs" in the Mystery Car topic.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    I'm rather stumped at the moment, although I am having some dark, frankenstein-like memories.

    The car has a Facel Vega air about it.

  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,755
    I recognize the badge.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Some kind of LaGonda?
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,177
    Some sort of Lagonda?
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,755
    Hint, a now quite desirable car supplied the ideal and some parts for this one.
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